Willms Ranch, Stanislaus County, California

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"Heritage of Anger" was filmed the last week of July in 1972. The filmed outdoor segments at Willms Ranch were selected for the screenplay that depicts the Dundee home. The big barn and the ranch house exterior were filmed just for this episode's storyline with Lorne Greene and Robert Lansing.

Michael Landon returned to film segments of "Little House" at the property in 1978 and 1979. The ranch house was rigged to explode and blown up in "The Godsister" from season five of the series. The owner was going to tear it down, but it turned out this story had a house being blown up by a whiskey still. Producer Kent McCray offered the owner this proposition and he gladly accepted it, since he just completed building a new home on the other side of the highway.

It also saved on production costs, so the company didn't have to build an exterior facade on location. In the end, they got to do it the real way, with a real ranch house being blown up, from its baseboards to the rooftop. All that remains is the foundation.

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